The village of Pinocchio

Vernante, famous for its vernantin, knives with hardened steel blades and handles made from cow horns, has in recent times linked its image to Pinocchio. Along the streets of the village, two local painters (Bruno Carletto ‘Carlet’ and Bartolomeo Cavallera ‘Meo’) have created more than one hundred and fifty murals dedicated to the vicissitudes of the wooden puppet from the imagination of Carlo Collodi.

It is a tribute to the paintings by Attilio Mussino, author of the illustrations of the most famous edition of the book ‘The Adventures of Pinocchio’, the 1911 edition. Mussino, a native of Turin, lived his last years in the village of Valle Vermenagna; the museum dedicated to him and housed in the spaces of the former confraternity, proposes the works – drawings, paintings, original publications – of the artist left as a gift to the Vernante Pro-Loco.